Hood movies

Turn It Up (2000)

Action, Biographical picture, Crime, Musical, crime film, drama film, hood film

The Super (1991)

Komödie, comedy film, hood film

Louie Kritski is a heartless slumlord who was born into money, thanks to his ruthless father, "Big Lou", also a slumlord. However, the tables turn on Louie when he's threatened with a year in prison for his failure to keep his New York Cit…

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State Property (2002)

hood film

Frustrated with being broke, Beans (Sigel) decides that the only way to achieve the American Dream is to seize it. The film follows Beans and his crew, the ABM, as they take over the city of Philadelphia, creating mayhem as their empire bu…

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Sunset Park (1997)

Drama, Sport, drama film, hood film

Phyllis Saroka is a P.E. teacher at Sunset Park High School in New York City, who reads a flyer that her school is looking for a new boys basketball coach. Looking for more money to pursue opening a restaurant on St.

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Fear of a Black Hat (1993)

Fake Documentary, comedy film, hood film

Nina Blackburn, a sociologist who analyzes hip hop as a form of communication, chooses to make a documentary on the hardcore gangsta rap group called N.W.H. ("Niggaz With Hats") for her graduate thesis. The N.W.H.

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Princess of Thieves (2001)

Action, Adventure, action film, adventure film, romantic drama

Years after the "known" events of the Robin Hood legend, Robin's daughter, Gwyn (Keira Knightley), has grown up to be a strong-willed young woman, with a talent for archery, much like her father. As Maid Marian has died and Robin Hood (Stu…

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Strapped (1993)

Crime, Drama, blaxploitation film, crime film, drama film, hood film

Diquan Mitchell is a 19-year old ex-con who is attempting to turn his life around and start legitimate work. Upon arriving home, Mitchell witnesses an argument between two youths, Chucky and Pharaoh, turn into a shooting in the stairwell o…

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Hot Boyz (2000)

Drama, action film, crime film, drama film, hood film

Kool (Silkk The Shocker) is a good kid from the inner city with ambitions of becoming a successful rap star. He is a black belt in Kenpo karate and is in love with poised and college-bound LaShawna (Shireen Crutchfield). Delores (Pamella D…

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Light It Up (1999)

Drama, drama film, hood film, teen film

In an urban Queens high school students, Lester DeWitt, who lost his father, his younger best friend, artist Zacharias 'Ziggy' Malone, hard-working Stephanie Williams, criminal Rodney J. Templeton, rebellious pregnant Lynn Sabatini, and hu…

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Ill Manors (2012)

Crime, Drama, crime film, drama film, hood film

I Got the Hook Up (1998)

comedy film, hood film

Working out of their van, Black (Master P) and Blue (Johnson) deal in TV sets and boomboxes, but then a driver mistakenly drops off a cell phone shipment. Business is on the upswing, but then the local crime boss, Roscoe, and his enforcer,…

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Anuvahood (2011)

comedy drama, crime film, hood film

The story follows Kenneth (Adam Deacon) who likes to call himself "K". He has an ambition of becoming a grime MC, and has already created his debut mixtape, Feel The Pain. However, nobody has bought a single copy and Kenneth works, for now…

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Next Day Air (2009)

Action, Komödie, action comedy film, comedy film, hood film

Leo works for Next Day Air (NDA), a package delivery company, where his mother happens to be his boss, but is at risk of getting fired for any more mistakes. While delivering a package addressed to Jesus in apartment 303, Leo accidentally …

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The Story of Robin Hood (1952)

Adventure, action film, comedy film

Young Robert Fitzooth, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father Sir Hugh at King Richard's palace. On the way home, Sir Hugh is killed by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, taking on t…

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Babylon (1980)

Drama, drama film, hood film

Babylon follows a young reggae DJ (Brinsley Forde, M.B.E., frontman of the British group Aswad) of the Ital Lion sound system in Thatcher-era South London as he pursues his musical ambitions while also battling fiercely against the racism …

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The Breaks (1999)

Komödie, hood film

A Sunday in the life of Derrick King, an Irish kid raised in Compton, California by a black family. He speaks and dresses in a way that might be called "black" and thinks of himself as a black person. It is a day of disasters: his mom kick…

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State Property 2 (2005)

Action, drama film, hood film

Beans, an inmate in prison and head of the ABM gang, writes a letter from prison, expressing his hatred and telling someone that if they're reading it, he is now free. He then recaps the first film. One night, Beans is arrested for drug tr…

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Slam (1998)

Drama, coming-of-age film, drama film, hood film, independent film, musical film

Raymond "Ray" Joshua (played by Saul Williams) is a young man growing up in the Southeast, Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Dodge City, slang for a real Southeast D.C. neighborhood.[A] Despite his innate gift for poetry and his aspiration …

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Before I Self Destruct (2009)

crime film, drama film, hood film, musical film

Clarence Jenkins (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson), who lives with his mother Donna (Kar) and his gifted brother Shocka (Elijah "Strong-E" Williams), works in a supermarket after having his dreams of playing basketball professionally destroyed du…

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Quinceañera (2006)

Coming Of Age, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, hood film, teen film

Magdalena, a fourteen-year-old girl from a working-class Mexican American family in Echo Park, Los Angeles, attends her cousin Eileen's quinceañera, an extravagant coming-of-age ceremony to celebrate her fifteenth birthday. Eileen's older …

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Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)

crime film, drama film, hood film

Dennis, living in a Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn, New York has had enough of poverty, and witnessing his alcoholic father beat his mother. His father is depressed and troubled from working hard for "the white man" for so many years…

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Caught Up (1998)

Gangster Film, crime film, drama film, hood film

Daryl Allen (Bokeem Woodbine) is an ex-con who has been serving time for drug charges. Now he plans to get his life straight, open up a nightclub and be a part of his son Jerome's life. His friend Trip offers to give him the $10,000 for hi…

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A Day in the Life (2009)

hood film, musical film

Sticky Fingaz plays a main role in a rap musical about gangster that gets caught up in a bloody war between two criminal families. When the Black's family attacks a crack house and kills its people, Sticky is forced to choose between retre…

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Wild Thing (1987)

Action, Drama, Thriller, thriller film, vigilante film

When his parents are killed in a botched drug deal, a young boy is taken in by a bag lady who teaches him about the Blue Coats (Cops) and White Coats (Doctors). After her death, he becomes an urban Tarzan defending innocents in a large cit…

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